Cubs vs. Dodgers Game Highlights (4/16/23) | MLB Highlights

It's looking like Julio Rios is going to try to play stopper today. Instead the Dodgers has a chance to get him a series win. Nico Horner steps in against Julio Rios. I have a base hit out of the left center field Thompson over to collect go and a good start. Nico Horner has been on base twelve straight games. Now Dansby Swanson stepping in that Horner at first to two to the plate Swanson down on strikes again. Dansby Swanson at a four hit game in the last game before this series he's now over nine with eight K's here. All-Star left fielder Ian Hap to two again down on strikes. Good change from Rios. And if there's been one piece that's been not quite as good through three starts it's been that pitch with two gone say a Suzuki. There goes Horner. They got it picked off. Good. That's the ending from Rios was high and Freddy Freeman needed every bit of that six five frame to grab it. And Horner is retired at second Drew Smiley thirty three years old. Ten seasons in the majors third start here today. Freeman stepping in jumps on the first one rolls it up the middle for a base hit in the center field. Freddy Freeman attacks the first pitch and becomes the first baseman with a game for L.A. J.D. Martinez on the ground back to the mound. Smiley the second for one return to first. That's a double play. And exactly what Drew Smiley was looking for beginning with Chris Taylor Taylor at a homer in the first game of this series on a one pitch. He drills another down the line towards the ball of it's fair. It's gone. Five hits for home runs and the Dodgers lead one nothing. Why do they call it the foul pole. This ball hits it and it is fair. Mookie Betts coming up that's looking to get his season going. He's thirteen for fifty seven the O2 little bloop shot at a short right field and it's going to drop in for a base. It's going to roll to the side wall and Betts will roll into second base. It was not a whole lot to it. And all was said and done. Betts is a second base with his sixth double of the season. But runners in scoring position have not really been a strong point so far for this Dodger ballclub. Freddy Freeman who's single to right in his first at-bat has had a good career against Smiley. Smiley's O2 and a swing and a miss struck him out. That is a different curveball right there. He's expecting it from a left handed hitter to go left to right. That's not what the curveball of Drew Smiley does. Martinez hits it on the ground but Swanson right there. Dansby throws him out. A good job of limiting the damage by Drew Smiley. Dodgers have the lead one nothing. Urias to face two three and four in the Cubs lineup. Swanson with his first hit of this series drops it in the center field one on one out here in the fourth inning. Say a Suzuki to the plate. There goes Swanson on a one two swing and a miss throw from Barnes not in time. Dansby Swanson has the eight stolen base of the weekend for the Cubs. Julio gets the strikeout but a good jump over there and two gone in this fourth inning for Trey Mancini ground ball Vargas waiting on it. That ends the fourth Cubs training man in scoring position their problems with men aboard this weekend continue. Patrick Wisdom to two got him breaking ball slur of Julio's has been very good for the swing and miss. So here's Cody Bellinger facing his former teammate Julio Urias on the ground to the right side. Bobble forget about it. Bellinger will be safe. You have one chance at it right there with how hard that was hit Bellinger aboard with one out down with two homers in his last start. Bellinger on the move and the transfer the ball slips out of Barnes hands. It's going to be a steal. I think they might have picked something up with Urias because Dansby and Bellinger had great jumps. By the way it's the start of the game yesterday 0 4 17 with men on base on the ground out to short Taylor top five two away Bellinger on third. This is exactly the spot that David Ross was hoping you know that Terence would be able to make a difference as a good right handed bat against the high quality left hander. That's hit softly third base side Urias wrote a first Ronald score. Torrence is in there an infield single knocks in a run and we're even up. And now the bases are loaded to Anthony and have coming up bases loaded for the All-Star Ian Happ. Q shot right side Vargas can he make up for it. You bet he can. His air open the door for the first run but he covers a mile here to get to this ball and keep it tight at one second walk in the inning after Smiley didn't have one over the first four. This opportunity belongs to Freddie Freeman. I guess you've got to come back with that curve ball and just hope that you're able to fool him one more time. Taylor at second bets at first the three to he does and he did and Freeman no argument. He drops the curve in for called strike three. Great job by Drew Smiley. He freezes one of the best hitters in the game. We're tied at one and a five Patrick Wisdom down that is hammered left field that one back. That one is gone. Wisdom has gone yard again on O2 pitch and he deposits it over the left field wall and the Cubs have the lead. He's homered in three in a row. It's his sixth of the season. All right. It's one thing to hit three in a row. I mean it's a big thing but it's a bigger thing when you do it at Dodger Stadium and it's a huge thing when you do it against the left hand that's on the mound right now. And Patrick you were saying we're going back to back and it's three one and on slow trot for the former Dodger Cody Bellinger. That has got to feel great. A mix of cheers and booze. Mom loving it. Cody Bellinger welcome back to Dodger Stadium. Jan Gomes with a single Rios his day is done. Graterol making his seventh appearance of the young season. There goes Gomes three to falls back into the zone at ninety eight. And the any Cubs have taken the lead with two home runs middle six three one one out one on Austin Barnes. Barnes into right center field he's got his first hit of the season. Taylor heads for third he'll get there. Austin Barnes snaps a season opening over 18 tying on a board top of the order coming up and they rally late for the second game in a row one one pitch. Barnes on a fly ball to right Suzuki having a hard time finding it he can't get in the sun gift wrapped on a Sunday afternoon here in L.A. Taylor's in the store. It's a one run game very very unfortunate right there. I was going to drive in a run no matter what. But it was not possibly going to drive Adler out of the ballgame Mark Leitner Junior's second straight game comes in. He's off to a great start this year. Freeman got him swinging. Big strikeout from Mark Leitner Junior and he continues to do the job. What a job by Mark Leitner. But it's not over in the J.D. Martinez. And the bases are loaded and now Leitner to Muncie and a swing and a miss struck him out and Leitner strands the bases loaded. What a great job by Mark Leitner Junior. Well back here bottom of the ninth and Michael Fulmer will try and close things down. The guy that did him in last night David Peralta will be the first man that he sees David Ross out of the dugout. Rossi might have just set a trap. Brandon Hughes down there in the bullpen. It's easy to pick up but he's the only left hander get Dave Roberts into that bench. I'll go back into the bullpen pitching change here in L.A. Boxberger tasked with trying to finish this one off. In there got him looking for Peralta frozen inside corner and Hayward says no way that he's frustrated with Sean Barber but they're two away. That's his safe tying run is on Owen to on Freeman two outs bottom nine. Betts at first in their ball game Cubs win and they come into L.A. and take two out of three.